Urien's Voyage

Nobel Prize–winning writer André Gide marks his voyage toward self-discovery in this imaginative allegorical work
When
Urien and his sailing companions begin their voyage, it is to places
unknown and, perhaps, only dreamed. This allegorical masterpiece from
André Gide, a key figure of French letters, deftly illustrates the
techniques and doctrine of the Symbolist movement—and the dual nature of
Gide's own psyche. Written at a crucial time in his artistic
development, this imaginative work signals his gradual abandonment of
acetic celibacy toward an embrace of pleasure and carnal desires,
revealing a Gide more transparent in this early work than in his mature
writings.
Translator and scholar Wade Baskin annotates the work, connecting Gide's life and bibliography to the text.
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Substantial and virile . . . purity, austerity and abstraction rise to a peak. - The Nobel Prize Library